Political Mobilization and Collective Action

This thematic area has as its focus of attention the forms of political mobilization and collective action that are being developed by various migrant groups and communities across and beyond nation-state boundaries in the contemporary world-system. In particular, we will seek to address how the practices and discourses of resistance and assertion that have emerged among these groups challenge and transform collective identities, notions of political and social citizenship, processes of class formation and class-based politics, and extant modes and modalities of political mobilization.

We invite empirically grounded and theoretically informed papers that focus on political mobilization and collective agency among a wide range of actors, including but not restricted to: irregular migrants, asylum seekers and refugees, transnational religious communities, migrant workers, minority groups in the global North and the global South, and transnational solidarity networks grounded in migrant and diasporic communities.